Tag: Lauren Bacall
November 13, 2013 /

Technicolor – Lucille Ball

November 13, 2013 /

Technicolor – Anne Baxter

November 13, 2013 /

Technicolor – Lauren Bacall

August 13, 2013 /

DESIGNING WOMAN – LOS ANGELES – 1957

“Designing Woman” playing at the State on Broadway – 1957: “Designing Woman” – directed by Vincente Minnelli – starring Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck: A lovely apartment in the city, New York City, for fashion designer Bacall and new husband, sports reporter, Peck… It was a box office success, and…

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June 22, 2013 /

NATALIE WOOD – SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL – 1964

May 7, 2013 /

LAUREN BACALL – LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE – HARRY TRUMAN

Louise Dahl-Wolfe is credited with discovering Bacall while working for Diane Vreeland at Harper’s Bazaar. On a visit to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on February 10, 1945, Bacall’s press agent, chief of publicity at Warner Bros. Charlie Enfield, asked the 20-year-old Bacall to sit on the piano…

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May 7, 2013 /

BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING

A friend asked me in the comments (http://skepperson.com/) if there were any similarities between the chapters of the novel I was posting and the real story of Bogart and Bacall. She asking if a story element, “sympathy as an aphrodisiac”, came into play with Bacall’s feeling for Bogart. I thought…

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May 7, 2013 /

HOWARD HAWKS

I understand Howard Hawks enjoyed talking to young people: And, mentoring talent: “We discovered Bacall was a little girl who, when she becomes insolent, becomes rather attractive. That was the only way you noticed her, because she could do it with a grin. So I said to Bogey, “We are…

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